# CVE-2015-9252: An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-02-13 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e

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